Saudi police ‘stopped’ fire rescue
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1874471.stm
Friday, 15 March, 2002
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Saudi Arabia’s religious police stopped schoolgirls from leaving a blazing building because they were not wearing correct Islamic dress, according to Saudi newspapers.
In a rare criticism of the kingdom’s powerful “mutaween” police, the Saudi media has accused them of hindering attempts to save 15 girls who died in the fire on Monday.
15 girls die as zealots ‘drive them into blaze’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/1387874/15-girls-die-as-zealots-drive-them-into-blaze.html
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